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A Drone with Insect-Inspired Folding Wings
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The aim of this project was to assemble, interconnect, and program a group of ground robots. The objective of the robot control is to cooperatively complete a set of tasks where each task represents a goal location that needs to be visited. For the hardwar ...
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Karen Ann J Mulleners, Alexander Gehrke, Swathi Badala Krishna
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IOP Publishing Ltd2022Not gone with the wind: Active microscale flight with highly porous bristled wings
Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Yuexia Luna Lin
The finesse of sub-millimeter insect flight with comb-like bristled wings raises intriguing questions, not only on fluid-structure interactions (FSI) but also on the mechanical behavior of the underlying, highly porous structures. Farisenkov et al. charact ...
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The slogan “robots will pervade our environment” has become a reality. Drones and ground robots are used for commercial purposes while semi-autonomous driving systems are standard accessories to traditional cars. However, while our eyes have been riveted o ...
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Flying robots require a combination of accuracy and low latency in their state estimation in order to achieve stable and robust flight. However, due to the power and payload constraints of aerial platforms, state estimation algorithms must provide these qu ...
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In animal locomotion, either in fish or flying insects, the use of flexible terminal organs or appendages greatly improves the performance of locomotion (thrust and lift). In this article, we propose a general unified framework for modeling and simulating ...
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